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|isbn=15098896121786482126|title=The Rising Tide Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D I Vera StanhopeS Max Craigie)|author=Ann CleevesNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to Holy Islandapproach the police. Some of them found Neither side likes or has any respect for the Only Connect course transformative other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and theyhe've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at s prepared to tell the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off police where the island too close to high tide body of a missing person is buried and her car who was swept away, but responsible for her younger sisterdeath. This person, Louisahe promises, has returned with is someone big and it will be worth the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagerspolice doing what he wants. Ken now has Alzheimer's and And what he's a shadow of the man he used wants is to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes transferred to an open prison to have some quiet time alone in serve the chapelremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Annie Laidler lives locally Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she provides much of 's even prepared to do the food: her deli other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is famous in the areakept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=02419901650008405026|title=Hope to Die A Stranger in the Family (D I FawleyMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cara HunterJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from the householderher bed one summer night. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything She was alright never found and it took quite a while for the elderly householder investigation ground to answer the doora halt. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead intheir bed. In the kitchen Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was a body on 's something about the floor: positioning of the head had been blown off with a shotgun bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds of What looked as though it was going to be an intruder open-and had come downstairs to investigate-shut case is now a complex double murder. The ignorant young lout had called him Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'Grandad'' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defences boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=178763566X0571379877|title=Listen to MeThe Kellerby Code|author=Tess GerritsenJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was Edward Jevons is a spring day and she wore her newworking-class young man, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined obsessed with his upper- class friends, Robert and unsafe - in the snow thatStanza. Robert's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits hertheatre director. It doesn He't stop. Two months laters also self-obsessed, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolidemanding, handsome and entitled and a keen defender of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesuses Edward to run errands for him. Nothing gets past her Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch whatRobert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's happening in not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the neighbourhood. The people who are moving two of them kissing in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsa dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1801109265Jo Callaghan|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''When a punctual man who was inexplicably never is found crucified on time'' and he was - as usual - late the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to pick up his sonthe case alongside her sidekick, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'the AI detective Lock. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyIt's attention, his mother, Annatheir first live case together, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The dinner would never be servedBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, as James Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The very high profile case falls that draws a lot of unwanted attention to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policetheir AI Future Policing project. She's feeling Will they be able to solve the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the going gets tough.case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1035021803|title=Dark MusicThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? English country village where she grew up. This does have a wonder-mind at the heart She's back now because of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus of the narrativerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Micaela, is no John Watson MDCarole. SheFreya's former mentor and Carole's a Chilean in the Stockholm policeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, put on a murder squad as she knows is dead and the prime suspect of oldcircumstances seem suspicious, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside say the stadiumleast. Beppe, Arthur was the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic reason why Freya had not been back to the ref during the closing minutesvillage: Arthur, but refuses to admit anythingshe feels, through days and weeks of interrogationlet her down badly. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up withEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told has not felt able to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, be near the man or pursue the profession she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblesloved. But taken off After the casesplit, she can no longer help solve the crimeworked in a cafe, met and with Rekke married James (on the rebound from the most erratic, irregular kind love of guyher life, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X1398524085|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Nobody knows what the truth is any mores fiftieth birthday party but never turned up.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis Her children, sons Niall, Paul and much of the Vézère valley Ollie and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')her daughter, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneEtty. They're not just policemen are all worried but - they're both deeply committed to the wellstrangely -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceher husband, Alec, is not. The discovery of an oldShortly afterwards, stolen PeugeotEtty and Greg, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnfind the body of Greg't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullets father, with Russian letters stamped on the baseDuncan Ackerley, which they found in the carriver. Oh, It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and there was a golf ball too, which didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't belong to the owner of stand the carguilt. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperThe Salter children are not convinced but there's weaponlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|isbn=07278505471529900360|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Ghost Orchid|author=David MarkJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even had time after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for breakfast when the call came throughhis help on difficult cases. A body had been found in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the roots help of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullpsychologist only worked for a while. When he gets to the sceneFinally, it was Robin, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manDelaware's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It would seem She knew that this the involvement was done whilst something that the man was still aliveshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. McAvoy makes Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceremote property in Bel Air. But justice always comes at a cost He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and this time the cost might be she is married to McAvoyan extremely rich man and it's own familynot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)178763681X|title=Little DrummerKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a mixture way of police procedural getting both men and thrillerwomen to do what he wanted. Beginning with Paul ''somehow'' got the death of a young woman in a carpark, impression that looks very much like an overdosehe'd be at the school to assist Paul, it unravels into who had a far-reaching investigation of murderbroken arm, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealingsbut it didn't turn out that way. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda The teaching - and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to Africa as they follow turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the twists and turns of person who discovered the investigation. Gunnarstranda body and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down everyone knows that the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard police consider that person to uncover be the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going onprime suspect.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=13985075041529421284|title=Cold ReckoningLaying Out the Bones|author=Russ ThomasKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed It was one of those flash downpours that his father committed suicide the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and for forensic testing proved the last sixteen body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years heearlier. He's d been searching for evidence to prove that he's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirknown drug user and had learning disabilities, there was so it could have been a link back to a cold simple case from 2002. There didnof misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses convinced. Geary was a link to the case his father townie, so what was investigating before he died. Above all there's a growing sense that doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the criminality suicide of Det Supt Stevens is going Holly Gilbert and to be brought out into two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the opentime. Perhaps Tyler is going Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to get the answers he needs?you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=17876349061529425867|title=No Less the DevilLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Stuart MacBrideSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Oldcastle In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Malcolm father of Ryan, is in troublenot. He's in an abandoned house and henot any of those things. He's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (wereading'll soon learn that shes not 's Allegra Dean-Edwards'really'' his thing) and Hugohis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but sheThey'd put a tracking device re usually in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepinglime green or acid yellow. It wonYou might wonder if you't be long before the re being introduced to a police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not many other people . The two men are going to have just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1529431735|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Winter Visitor|author=Rob KeeleyJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber It's February 1991 and Tom Barton were in the finals of Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's Innmore surprising. For aspiring barristers, moots test He'd been exiled on the participants' knowledge of several areas of law Costa del Sol as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedwanted drug smuggler for a decade. Tom and Nat are from The return has come about because he's had a provincial universityletter from his ex-wife, saying that she' s ill and theyhasn're ''almost'' looked down on because of thist long to live. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia It'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Becca has an abundance sent to a watery grave in the boot of confidencea stolen Ford Sierra. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any better.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=15291259440861541774|title=City A Nye of the DeadPheasants|author=Jonathan KellermanSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a livingshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, you're careful and it's not just about the way that you driveGuy Trueman. You restrict your alcohol intake and if it's Maik was involved in a trip street brawl - he would later maintain that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking he was facing a removals truck through man armed with a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 knife - and he killed aGhurka.m. when the roads are quieter Initially, even if you he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to wait up when you get to where you're goingmurder the man. And it was going well until Now he could be facing the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angelesdeath penalty. The man was stark naked Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and couldnwouldn't be identifiedhelp Danny at all.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11521129886|title=The Patient They Had It Coming (A DS Cross thrillerGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Tim SullivanKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerGreg Mason's Syndrome. He can be rude, difficult and awkward with people, although itjust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he's never intentionalll warn someone about how much he charges. It's just that he thinks differently a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and social niceties simply donthey't occur re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to himhave killed himself. ThereStuart's a reason why heconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - itsimply wasn's t in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that he has the best conviction rate with casesdeath was suicide, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached but Stuart's prepared to himself) and even attempts pay Greg to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourfind out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerB0CK3MYJ56|title=Unhinged Responsibilities (Volume 3) (Blix and RammGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's the third book 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a series private investigator. 'Shades of stories featuring Alexander BlixCameron Strike', a police officer, and Emma Rammyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, a crime journalist. In this book we find that when one of Blixbut where's colleaguesthe life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries he has been asked to contact her superior, Blixlook into something. Before she can reach himJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, howeveror rather, she is murdered, and Blixthey were until Helen was killed in what's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toobeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix Joyce - and Rammher parents, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot Oliver and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenPam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led Greg's been asked to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003investigate.
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|isbn=15291516001838954481|title=Give Unto OthersThe Misper|author=Donna LeonKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that Venice has changed. The ''pandemia'' stripped He was the fifteen-year-old holding the city of its tourists for nearly two years gun and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopenpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. There's now a cascade He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have the jury system he was found not put an end to greedguilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how And so lives must go on earth are they going to launder all . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the money which countryside but when a missing teenager is coming their way? Whilst hefound on her territory she's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was drawn into a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem wider investigation - and she'd like Brunetti's adviceback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1448309743|title=The Blood Tide Devil Stone (DS Max CraigieDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Neil LancasterCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' In the back village of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was Cronchie on the perfect place to land illegal deliveries West coast of Scotland, five members of drugsa wealthy family are found murdered. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earner, The only to find item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that Macca, if the man he thought he was working withstone is removed from Otterburn House, is deaddeath will follow. His remains would never be foundThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The delivery Senior Investigating Office is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses weDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'll get to know them quite wellhim.
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|isbn=15294096591529077699|title=The Locked Room Raging Storm (Dr Ruth GallowayTwo Rivers)|author=Elly GriffithsAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingsall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. She was intrigued by Jem Rosco blew into the discovery local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a picture of her own house: it was an old photographmonth and then turned up, naked and dead, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'a small boat, some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were married. When she returned anchored in Scully Cove close to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was village of Greystone, in lockdownDevon. Ruth and Kate are restricted to Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate world sailor and continue with her university teaching dutiesall round ''celebrity''. The I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good thing was meeting Zoeegg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping money for carers.his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1529427045|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Liz MistryKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the third murder in small town of Gasskas, where the space so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersgold rush. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of BradfordThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Only, this time, itSalander's niece's going mother is the latest woman in the area to be differenthave vanished without trace. The body appears to Nikki to be It was only with reluctance that of Salander became her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdown. It isnniece't Haqib: there are similarities s guardian but the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is quickly becomes obvious that Nikki Svala is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressiona remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=15291355671787636607|title=One Step Too FarThe Trap|author=Lisa GardnerCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the stag weekendmorning. Five Drunken revellers spilling out of them had set out: Tim (the groom) clubs and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and Joshmanage to get one of the few taxis available. The first Others squash onto the night they had plenty bus that will only go as far as one of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offoutlying villages. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Timwoman all regret the 'taxi problem', who was experienced particularly in survival techniques, would go for helpthe light of 'the missing women'. When help didn't come For one young woman, the final stop on the remaining three finally made their bus leaves her a long way back to townshort of her home. Scott followed soon after She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Timher phone's father, Martin, and dead. The bus had driven off before she had the four friends have been back chance to continue beg the search although they do now acknowledge that theybus driver to let her use his. There're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15293465411405957174|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelA Death at the Party|author=Elizabeth GeorgeAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's late July party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerambulance he so desperately needs. It follows on from the success of DeborahWhat we don's book ''London Voices'': t know is who the meeting man is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used or why Nadine prefers to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitieshave him die. DeborahI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographshappening.
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|isbn=13987069060008530025|title=The LostMurder in the Family|author=Simon BeckettCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of Metropolitan police firearms officerher stepfather, Jonah Colley's young sonLuke Ryder, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedin the garden of their West London home. Hehad an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd fallen asleep in slipped down the steps but the park whilst Theo vicious beating his face had taken was playing and when he woke, Theo had goneobviously deliberate. It cost him Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his marriage murder and his home. Ten years later heit's largely come through it and henow the subject of ''Infamous''s out with his team when he gets , a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneytrue-crime show. Gavin used A group of experts has been brought together to be his best friend but it's a long time since review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they've spokenre going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. HeThere's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice no dump of the whole box set - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quayno shortage of cliffhangers. ''ThereIt's no one else I can trust'', he sayscompelling viewing.
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|isbn=15294181000241996104|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesComing to Find You|author=Martin WalkerJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesThrillers|summary=INancy'm not usually a fan of short stories s mother and step- I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and forget to pick it up again her step- but I am a fan brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin Walkerreceives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's [[Martin Walkerreceived a 's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read silent sentence''Bruno- she's Challenge'' was hard not been found guilty of anything but will have to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even trylive with what happened for the rest of her life. For those new to the seriesOf course, thereit's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about whomade worse because Nancy's who rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the background to why Bruno papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is in St Denisundoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1529413680|title=Buried Lies A Chateau Under Siege (Gaby Darin Book 5A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Jenny O'BrienMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from her sonthe English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomachIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, so her over-protectiveness was understandableKerquelin, but her fiancethe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, Ian, was pestering her to get married his doctor is there and she thought it would be the man is whisked away in a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likehelicopter. Her A local doctor (and friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but then - as he dumped her and she couldn't get s a senior government employee, the money back, so Hannah was offered man who runs Frenchelon - the opportunity to go military has stepped in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead One daughter lives nearby and fiveanother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-year-old Hunter missingarranged holiday.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1529196388|title=Without a TraceThe Trial|author=Jane BettanyRob Rinder|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through a divorce and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back to her new home and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chest. She'd no idea who he was.}}{{Frontpage|author=Gunnar Staalesen|title=Bitter Flowers|rating=3.5
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|summary=Varg Veum is Grant Cliveden was a hero: a Norwegian Private Investigator policeman who has stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just finished a stint about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in rehab and is now returning to workplain sight at the Old Bailey. However, There's just one man in the quiet job heframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's supposedly taken on caretaking someonenot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, . Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating thesehis pupil, but also looking into an oldAdam Green, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundeventually represent him. Somehow Knight's determined to plead not guilty, these disparate cases appear despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xcontrary.
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